Pliocene and Pleistocene Records of Fossil Turtles from Western Kansas and Oklahoma: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 1 — John Shaqi
Pliocene and Pleistocene Records of Fossil Turtles from Western Kansas and Oklahoma: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 1Galbreath, Edwin C. (Edwin Carter)
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Pliocene and Pleistocene Records of Fossil Turtles from Western Kansas and Oklahoma: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 1
Galbreath, Edwin C. (Edwin Carter)
Turtles, Fossil
+Gopherus+ sp. No. 5935 is from the Pleistocene of Harper County,
Kansas, and No. 7677 is from the early Pleistocene of Beaver County,
Oklahoma. Each is composed of costals and neurals which may be referred
to this genus. Their size indicates an animal considerably larger than
any on record, and probably these specimens represent a new species.
Family CHELYDRIDAE
+Chelydra+ sp. No. 6821 is the anterior part of a plastron from the
Edson Quarry, Sherman County, Kansas. The age is middle Pliocene. This
fragment has been listed three times in print, once merely as Chelonia
(having reference to the order) (Adams and Martin, 1931), and twice by
Hibbard (1934 and 1939) as _Chelonia_ sp. Hibbard's listing was
obviously a _lapsus calami_ for _Chelydra_ since he placed the genus in
the family Chelydridae.
No. 6479 is part of a costal and marginals from Meade County, Kansas.
This specimen was associated with _Aenocyon dirus_, and is Pleistocene
in age.
Family TRIONYCHIDAE
+Amyda+ sp. No. 6800 is part of a costal collected in Seward County,
Kansas. It is possibly of early Pleistocene age. No. 7568 is part of
a carapace from Meade County, Kansas, probably of the same age.
LITERATURE CITED
ADAMS, L. A., and MARTIN, H. T.
1931. An addition to the Urodele Fauna of Kansas from the lower
Pliocene. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 19:289-297, pls. 30-32.
HIBBARD, C. W.
1934. Two new genera of Felidae from the middle Pliocene of Kansas.
Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 37:239-255, pls. 4-6.
1939. Notes on additional fauna of Edson Quarry of the middle
Pliocene of Kansas. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 42:457-462,
6 figs.
1944. A new land Tortoise, _Testudo riggsi_, from the middle Pliocene
of Seward County, Kansas. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 30:71-76,
2 figs.
_Transmitted, March 8, 1948._
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